Carnegie Observatories Lunch Talks, Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
Unless otherwise noted, talks are on Fridays at 12:15PM in the conference room at 813 Santa Barbara Street.
Bring lunch.
Contact: Josh Simon, jsimon [at] obs.carnegiescience.edu
Info for speakers
Talks and abstracts from past years
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TUESDAY, Aug 18
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| Christopher Onken (ANU/Mt. Stromlo)
Echoes of Distant Black Holes
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Sep 4
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| Thiago Goncalves (Caltech)
Ionized gas in Lyman Break analogs: probing extreme star-forming galaxies at high resolution
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Sep 11
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| Michael Cooper (Arizona)
The Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae: Insights from a Study of the
Large-Scale Environments of Local Hosts
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TUESDAY, Sep 15
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| Deokkeun An (Caltech/IPAC)
New Insights into the Milky Way Galaxy
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WEDNESDAY, Sep 23
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| Joe Palca (NPR)
Science Reporting for NPR
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Sep 25
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| Andreea Petric (IPAC)
TBA
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Sep 28 (MONDAY)
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| Matt Walker (Cambridge)
TBA
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THURSDAY, Oct 1
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| Elinor Medezinski (Tel Aviv University)
The Full Strength of Cluster Lensing
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Oct 9
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| Chun Ly (UCLA)
The Universe as Viewed from Star Forming Galaxies over the
Past Ten Billion Years
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Oct 16
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| Gabe Brammer (Yale)
The Dead Sequence: A Clear Bimodality in Galaxy Colors From z=0 to z=2.5
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Oct 23
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| Mariska Kriek (Princeton)
A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies
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Oct 30
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| Ryan Quadri (Leiden)
TBA
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Nov 6
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| Subo Dong (IAS)
Hunting Microlensing Planets in Chaos -- A Pseudo Observer's Perspective
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THURSDAY, Nov 12
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| Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Harvard)
Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation
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Nov 20
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| Ian Roederer (Texas)
Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Halo
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Nov 27
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| Thanksgiving
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Dec 4
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| Shannon Patel (UCSC)
Density is Destiny: The Role of Environment in Building the
Red-Sequence
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MONDAY, Dec 7
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| Mark Krumholz (UCSC)
The Formation of Massive Stars
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Dec 11
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| Samuel Boissier (Marseille)
Relative Frequencies of SN Types & Metallicity of the Host Galaxies
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MONDAY, Jan 4
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| George Becker (Cambridge)
New Insights into Helium Reionization from the Thermal History of the IGM
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Jan 8
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| Desika Narayanan (CfA)
The Formation and Evolution of High-Redshift Submillimeter
Galaxies
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Jan 15
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| Mark Dijkstra (CfA)
Lyman Alpha Nebulae as a Signature of Cold Accretion onto Galaxies
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WEDNESDAY, Jan 20
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| Pascale Hibon (ASU)
Searching for Z≥7 Galaxies Using Narrow-Band Imaging
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Jan 22
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| Aristotle Socrates (IAS, Princeton)
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays
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Jan 29
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| Evgenya Shkolnik (DTM)
The Tidal and Magnetic Influence of Hot Jupiters
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WEDNESDAY Feb 3
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| Jordi Miralda-Escude (CfA)
Physical Ideas on Quasars and the Broad Line Region
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Feb 5
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| T.J. Cox (Carnegie Observatories)
A Tidal Tale
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Feb 19
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| Ivo Labbe (Carnegie Observatories) Cancelled due to illness
TBD
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THURSDAY Feb 25
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| Andrew Benson(Caltech)
Understanding Galaxy Formation: From the Lowest to the
Highest Redshifts
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Mar 5
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| Janice Lee (Carnegie Observatories)
Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
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THURSDAY Mar 11
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| Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley)
The Steady March of Feedback-Driven Star Formation in the Carina Nebula
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Mar 12
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| Jane Rigby (Carnegie Observatories)
Zooming in on Star Forming Galaxies Using Gravitational Lensing
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WEDNESDAY Mar 15
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| Mark Krumholz (UCSC)
Understanding the Star Formation Rate
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Mar 19
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| Ivo Labbe (Carnegie Observatories)
Galaxy Formation During the Epoch of Reionization
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THURSDAY Mar 25
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| Josh Simon (Carnegie Observatories)
The High Redshift Universe Next Door
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MONDAY, Mar 29
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| George Becker (Cambridge)
New Results in Hydrogen and Helium Reionization
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Apr 2
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| Anil Seth (CfA)
TBA
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Apr 9
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| Gurtina Besla (CfA)
The Formation of the Magellanic Stream
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June 11
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| Stephanie Juneau (Arizona)
TBA
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